Story+2008-03-16+St.+Paul,+MN

“Step right up, good evening to the Twin Cities (crowd cheers) we´re so glad to be back here for round two (crowd cheers) now is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 16.03.08 St.Paul, MN, intro to “Night”**

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 16.03.08 St.Paul, MN, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“Hey! (crowd cheers) thank you!...thank you…thank you, thanks for coming out, we appreciate that…uh…ooh!...see, Patti sends her love…we got the, uh, three teenagers so needless to say as I was leaving, uh, the hash brownies were just coming out of the oven… she´ll take care of that, she knows how to handle that…so (chuckles)…and Danny sends his best (crowd cheers) we hope we´re gonna see him out on this leg of the tour a little bit, maybe he´ll play (?)…in the meantime Charlie Giordano from the Sessions Band is sitting in (crowd cheers) and, uh, this is, uh, here´s to the end of, uh, eight years of magic tricks…”
 * 16.03.08 St.Paul, MN, intro to “Magic”**

“Are we having fun yet? (crowd cheers) alright, alright, alright!… this is a song called “Livin´ in the Future”…but it´s about what´s happening now…how along with everything that we love about our home and the place we come from, we´ve had to add over the past eight years things like rendition and illegal wiretapping and the rolling-back of fundamental civil liberties and, uh…´cause of the color of your skin or your…religion you may think that these things don´t impact your life but they´re all an attack on our Constitution, which means they´re an attack on our very selves and who we are as Americans (crowd cheers) and so the mighty E Street Band is here tonight to do something about it (crowd cheers) we´re gonna sing about it!... that´ll teach ´em…we´ll see where that goes…help me tell the story, Max…”
 * 16.03.08 St.Paul, MN, intro to “Livin´ in the Future”**

“She´s too small to be behind you guys (?)…” [* has a little girl moved in front so that she can see better]
 * 16.03.08 St. Paul, MN, intro to “The Promised Land”**

“Thank you…thank you so much…we wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) we´ve had two, these have just been, just wonderful shows we´ve had here in the Twin Cities this tour, thank you very much (crowd cheers) as always we´ve got some friends of ours in the hall with us tonight, folks from the Second Harvest Heartland (crowd cheers) the Second Harvest Heartland is the upper Midwest´s largest hunger relief organization and for every dollar that you donate Second Harvest Heartland can distribute more than nine dollars´ worth of groceries and products to those folks who are in need, they´re out there on the frontlines doing God´s work, please help the Second Harvest Heartland on your way out (crowd cheers) this is for all the Midwestern girls (crowd cheers) let me hear the Minnesota women out there (crowd cheers)(?)…and one from Jersey…”
 * 16.03.08 St. Paul, MN, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“Thank you, thank you!...alright, we´ve done this one the past few nights but we´re gonna do it again tonight, we´ll do it for Zach…I got, uh, a tape of this, he´s 13, playing all songs on the piano and on the guitar so we´re gonna do it for you tonight, this is a request, this is for Mr. Zach…”
 * 16.03.08 St. Paul, MN, intro to “Jungleland”**

“Happy St. Patty´s Day! (crowd cheers)… (…) Garry W.Tallent (crowd cheers) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the unstoppable Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) in for Dan Federici, Mr. Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and you wish you could be like him but you can´t: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Twin Cities! (crowd cheers) Twin Cities! (crowd cheers) you´ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”
 * 16.03.08 St.Paul, MN, intro to “American Land”**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//